Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Woodcutter Lynd Ward's first "novel" in woodcuts, Gods' Man (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929), was first of its kind in the U. S.,? became a minor collectors' item. Mad Man's Drum's story is simple in outline, but Artist-Author Ward this time makes some of his sequences unnecessarily obscure. As before, he is decorative, eerily suggestive, reminiscent of morbid cinema...
There is just one other item, to be scanned even more briefly. "The... warning was not given to undergraduates, as their access to alcohol is closely restricted...
Thanks for item "Playing Soldiers" in TIME of Oct. 20, in which you mention the fact that most Legionaries never saw front line action and that their convention resembled a gala college reunion, somewhat ribald...
Contemporary publications tell of early progress at Cambridge in Massachusetts. There is a copy of the first printed account of Harvard published at London in 1643. A news item dated January 25, 1764 describes the great fire which destroyed Harvard Hall, "only one of our ancient buildings which still remained, and the repository of our most valuable treasures", the Public Library, and the Philosophical Apparatus. Among the authentic documents there is a letter from Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Hancock written September 11, 1755 proposing a general subscription for the benefit of the Library, and enclosing his own subscription of four...
...investment in Diamond, he will have a stake in the greatest U. S. match company, and in a demoralized U. S. industry. Diamond Match's assets at the end of last year were $27,000,000. Of this, $1 represented patents and goodwill although 20 years ago this item came to $4,000,000. Diamond has great timber stands in California, Maine, Idaho and other states. It owns many lumber yards, 40 of which are in California's Sacramento Valley. Its products have been extended as conditions in the match business became worse. Diamond Match now makes toothpicks...